“ALEC created a new financial services subcommittee and CUNA attended the first meeting,” Pat Sowick, CUNA vice president of league relations, told News Now. “It’s important to have a credit union presence in these forums where financial services issues are discussed. A highlight this year at ALEC was the attendance by more than 600 state legislators–many of whom were freshman members.”

What’s more, CUNA’s affiliation with ALEC isn’t anything new. According to a 2003 press release issued by CUNA, “CUNA sits on ALEC’s Commerce and Economic Development Task Force.” An attempt was made to contact CUNA to obtain clarification on that group’s affiliation with ALEC, but as of this report I have not received any response. Reached by phone for comment on this report, Roys campaign manager Rick Coelho said his official policy is not to comment to myself or Blogging Blue, as I’m “clearly a Mark Pocan activist.”

So now that CULAC (through its parent organization, CUNA) has been found to have clear and unambiguous ties to ALEC, will Kelda Roys return the $2,500 her campaign received from that group? After all, if she wants to attack Mark Pocan for having taken contributions from companies with ties to ALEC, the least she could do is make sure she hasn’t accepted thousands of dollars from a group with ties to ALEC.